He might have told you, too, that upon that January morning he was starting with only one passenger on board—an elderly woman who was leaving her home in the south of the island to go and see a doctor at Lerwick, as she had been ill for some months.
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

Cover the bottom of a saucepan with olive oil, place over the fire until quite hot, then put in the garlic, parsley, and mushrooms, add half a can of tomatoes and cook half an hour.
— from Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. by Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords

Nor must we make any inference as to the moral character of gods from the mere prevalence of a belief in 691 a future world where men are in some way or other punished or rewarded for their conduct during their life.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Colle , f. (students’), weekly or other periodical oral examinations to prepare for a final examination, or to make up the marks which pass one at the end of the year .
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

On one occasion when the inspector of weights and measures was making a surprise visit, and testing the weights of the goods on offer, a man, standing near a stall where only one pound of butter was left unsold, noticed that as soon as the owner became aware of the inspector's entrance, she slipped two half-crowns into the pat, obliterating the marks where they had been inserted.
— from Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur Herbert Savory

“While he was doing some work on our plantation, our smoke-house and corn-cribs were robbed more than a dozen times.
— from Don Gordon's Shooting-Box by Harry Castlemon

But, until we were in the Sixth, we saw Westcott only on public occasions, and one of these occasions was the calling over of names on half-holidays, styled at Eton "Absence," and at Harrow "Bill."
— from Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell

The eyes were deep dark blue, and though sorrow and suffering had dimmed their brightness, their softness was increased; the smile was one of peace, of love, of serenity; of one who, though sorrow-stricken, as it were, before her time, had lived on in meek patience and submission, almost a child in her ways, as devoted to her mother, as little with a will and way of her own, as free from the cares of this work-a-day world.
— from Henrietta's Wish; Or, Domineering by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

They, not being satisfied with only one place of worship, requested the king to give them more temples.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston